Monday, May 27, 2013

Harvest Monday May 27th, 2013

My favorite harvest from last week never even got photographed. I was going out to take a walk and stumbled across it. The first perfectly ripe strawberry. I ate it on the spot.

The next day eight more were ripe. They didn't match the wonderful sweetness of the first berry. Still it is hard to beat a home grown strawberry.

There were a lot of harvests this week. I picked two baskets of salad greens.

Pounds of spinach came out of the first picking of the spring spinach. It will have one more picking this week before it gets pulled out to make way for the melons.

I dried a lot of thyme.

I picked more bok choy. Last week the photo really didn't show the color as the purple color is not on the bottom of the leaves. But here you can really see it.

Every week lots of roots are getting picked.

And I made a strawberry rhubarb crisp for a BBQ yesterday. The strawberries were the last of the frozen ones from last year. It is good to have finally finished them as the new berries are starting to come in.

Alliums 0.41lbs

Greens 5.86 lbs

Greens Asian 2.20 lbs

Herbs 0.58 lbs

Roots 1.97 lbs

Weekly Tally 11.01 lbs

Yearly Tally 29.16 lbs, -$272.84

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

I'm in strawberry heaven right now, too. So is the squirrel that keeps stealing mine. He's not fooled a bit by the Granny scarecrow out there, so I had to put some netting over the bed last night. My strawberries are a full month earlier than usual, so I'm already nearly 4 pounds ahead on them compared to previous years!

The purple bok choy is beautiful. I think we all should grow and include more purple vegetables in our diet. The anthocyanins have potent health benefits and we don't know the whole story yet. Besides that, they're beautiful. Susan

So beautiful. I haven't decided if my pac choi is ready to pull yet or not. I think it is suppose to be a smaller variety. I guess I need to find the envelope and find out. It is funny how people north of me are getting strawberries before me. Hmm. Maybe the type.

Your garden is really starting to pour on the production now! The strawberries look divine. My plants are fruiting right now and I am praying the wet cool weather we have currently we give way to a stretch of warm and dry as they start to ripen otherwise they will give in to grey mold again for the early crop. Last year I lost most of the first crop but had an excellent second run with them as it was dryer and warmer by then. Your greens and root crops are beautiful too. The purple bok choy is very interesting, but if I recall correctly from last week you actually liked the green for taste and eating quality better?

Oh those berries look wonderful. I'm tempted to try to grow some again because the rats aren't so prolific anymore, but I'm afraid that if I plant them "they will come". In the meantime I've been buying a half crate of berries at the farmer's market every week.

I keep meaning to grow some of that purple mizuna, it's so pretty and would be a wonderful addition to my salads.

It looks like you garden is definitely going into high gear now - how wonderful!

Beautiful photos of beautiful harvests! I can't take my eyes off those purple bok choy! Where did you say you got your seeds from? I'm tempted to try growing them, even if they're slighly bitter. Can't be worse than radicchio leaves.

Freshly picked home-grown strawberries are so tasty aren't they. I'm enjoying the pink & white flowers on mine at the moment, they're so pretty but I think it's also the lovely promise of the harvest to come that is making them so welcome!

How are you getting strawberries in this awful new england spring this year???? It has been way too cold and dreary this spring down here in the New Haven area!! (CT) I am jealous at how nice your garden looks!!

About Me

I've been gardening for almost three decades now, ever since my husband and I bought our first house. Every garden has been different. The first was small and the soil was almost pure sand. The second was larger and I had heavy clay. The third and current one which is just outside of Boston, is by far the largest even though the lot is by far the smallest. Since we bought the house new, we designed the landscaping ourselves, and the soil we added was fairly good. My challenge here is the location. We are so close to our neighbors that their houses can shade the garden.